If you’re anything like me, you will look at the freebies which come with crafty magazines, admire them and tell yourself that you’ll make a card with them, or scrap-booking page or do something wonderfully crafty with them … and you pop them to one side. From there they make it to a drawer. Then to the bottom of said drawer. Then you find them when you’re looking for something else and remember you were going to make something with them, so you put them on one side …. and the whole thing goes round and round like a merry-go-round.
Well I told myself that I was to actually make something with my freebies from now on, so I began with these Gorjuss images. Now I’m not a Gorjuss sort of girl. I like the images and think those little girls are just so pretty and so well drawn. But they’re not things I would normally craft with as I don’t kind of have a real ‘feel’ for them. I think they’re kind of ‘too sweet’ for me. (My daughter is the total opposite. She LOVES Gorjuss cards etc.).
I sat and looked at the images , telling myself that I HAD to make four cards or I was NEVER leaving that craft room (not even for a visit to the little girls room). So I did. I made four cards.
All the cards are made on a 6×6″ card base, dècoupaged, matted and layered.
This first card is dècoupaged (although you actually can’t see that it is in this photo) has the addition of Black Lace Washi tape, and some black Stickles at the corners. The envelope is decorated up with a bumble-bee on the flap. I wanted to put a foxes head on the flap of the envelope (as a nod to the fox in the Gorjuss picture) but couldn’t find the darn stamp.
This second card (above) is again dècoupaged, and I simply drew the wriggly lines around the lovely pale mustard layer, to sort of frame the whole thing. The envelope is decorated in the same way, with patchwork hearts to echo the little heart she has in her hair.
Card three (above), dècoupaged, matted, layered and decorated using a very fine nib pen, and I added some buttons using lilac Stickles to bring out the lilac in the Gorjuss girly picture; a teeny mushroom picture which I glossed and added a ribbon too. The envelope is decorated with a dragonfly. (I couldn’t get the light right for this card. The pink spotted background is actually more delicate and pale than it looks in the photo).
Finally … card four. Dècoupage, matted, layered, with the addition of a little ribbon and some Stickles. The envelope has a rabbit’s head on it, to acknowledge that the Gorjuss girl obviously likes rabbits because she’s holding one!
They’re not my usual type of card and I was absolutely outside my comfort zone, but I’ve done my personal challenge and made something with some of my freebies instead of adding continually to my stash. But I’m glad I challenged myself to do them. However – the challenge is ongoing. I still have more freebies stashed away, and I’m determined to use them! (You have been warned.)
All that remains is to wish you a very Happy Monday, and I sincerely hope that you have a lovely start to this new week. Make a memory today. Find one good thing which happened during the day and think about it when you go to bed tonight. Go on … make yourself smile
Have a truly blessed day, my fellow blogging friends and readers.
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